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Book The English Theatrical Avant Garde 1900 1925

Download or read book The English Theatrical Avant Garde 1900 1925 written by Simon Shepherd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, and rather more queer, than we’ve ever thought. Where the majority of writing on the early twentieth-century theatrical avant-garde is concerned with European movements and experiments, English activity of the period is often seen as parochial and conservative – mainly realism and issues-based drama. This book presents a new model of how avant-gardes might work; a model based not on masculine individualism but on communal inclusion. In describing this fascinating material, the author introduces us to many new figures and shows familiar ones in different ways: there’s Florence Farr, independent woman; Bob Trevelyan, radical pacifist and music drama pioneer; Granville Barker doing fairy plays while de-dramatising drama; Laurence Housman, socialist, homosexual, scripting St Francis; and the oddly modern J.M. Barrie. Together they made theatre practices rich in their diversity but consistent in their attempt to be new, producing a theatrical avant-garde unlike any other. This is a vital and indispensable new study for scholars and students of early twentieth-century theatre in England and beyond.

Book The Spiritual Power of Masks

Download or read book The Spiritual Power of Masks written by Nigel Pennick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Reveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying and allow the mask wearer to personify an ancestral presence, spirit, deity, or power • Examines animal guising and shows how mask customs are tied to creation myths and the ancestral founders of a people, tribe, city, or nation • Looks at morris dancers and mummers in the UK, Krampuslauf and Perchtenlauf in Germanic areas, the Gorgon myths of Greece, Norse Berserker rituals, and the annual Black Forest rite to awaken ensouled masks every spring There is a spiritual power in masks that transports one into realms unseen and gives voice to things unspoken. Within the context of ritual, putting on a mask places the wearer at the intersection between the present and the past, the living and the dead, this world and the Otherworld. Masks make it possible to activate ancient archetypes, with the mask wearer reanimating or personifying an ancestral presence or spirit, a deity or power, an animal or a being of the eldritch world. In this illustrated study, Nigel Pennick explores the magical and spiritual aspects of mask wearing from ancient times to the present. He examines the many mask traditions around Europe and shows how mask rituals are similar to shamanic journeying and near-death experiences and can induce ecstatic states that allow the power signified by the mask to take possession of the individual wearing it. He also looks at the practice of dressing up as sacred animals and mask wearing as it relates to ostenta, events that occur suddenly and without warning that are considered a token or sign from the Otherworld. Unveiling the sacred power of masks, the author shows how masks allow us to transport into realms unseen, embody ancestors and otherworldly entities, and connect with traditions that stretch back to time immemorial.

Book Subject Collections

Download or read book Subject Collections written by and published by New York : R.R. Bowker Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fleuron  a Journal of Typography

Download or read book The Fleuron a Journal of Typography written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Collections

Download or read book Subject Collections written by Lee Ash and published by New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edward Bawden and His Circle

Download or read book Edward Bawden and His Circle written by Malcolm Yorke and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive biography of Bawden, following his career in the context of the social and artistic friendships he cultivated.

Book Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

Download or read book Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester written by John Rylands University Library of Manchester and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogues of Sale

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  • Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972-05-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Catalogues of Sale written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1972-05-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index to Art Periodicals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 906 pages

Download or read book Index to Art Periodicals written by Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Century of Innovation

Download or read book Century of Innovation written by Oscar Gross Brockett and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1973 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revision of a major work in 20th-century theatre history by two theatre historians. It represents a comprehensive and accessible survey of the major movements, playwrights, critical theories and social contexts of theatre in this century. The text begins with an overview of the social/cultural environment at the end of the last century that spurred the development of drama and theatre, then surveys the realistic theatre of Ibsen and the Independent, Modernist and Anti-realist movements. The final two chapters cover world theatre of the past 20 years.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Microforms in Print

Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eric Ravilious

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Powers
  • Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
  • Release : 2003-11-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Eric Ravilious written by Alan Powers and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The English artist Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is now one of the most popular artists of his period. He was a painter of watercolours and murals, a book illustrator in wood engraving and lithography, and a designer of transfer-ware pottery." "Eric Ravilious - Imagined Realities includes illustrations of many previously unpublished paintings, including a number from private collections, as well as surveying his other artistic activities. The text draws on many letters and other documents, again previously unpublished, and is the most comprehensive account of Ravilious's career ever published. It also attempts to position Ravilious in relation to English art of his time, and more recent critical and cultural issues."--BOOK JACKET.

Book A Directory of British Theatre Research Resources in North America

Download or read book A Directory of British Theatre Research Resources in North America written by and published by London : British Theatre Institute. This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Webb
  • Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Limited
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781851495009
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Design written by Brian Webb and published by Antique Collectors Club Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design is an excellent introduction to the work of two major British designers and artists, Edward Bawden (1903-1989) and Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). Featuring some previously unpublished images, this book presents, in over 100 illustrations, every aspect of their creativity, including advertising, designs for wallpapers, posters, book jackets, trade cards and ceramics. Bawden and Ravilious met in the Design School of the Royal College of Art in 1922, members of a generation of students described by Paul Nash, one of their tutors, as belonging to 'an outbreak of talent'. Their shared interests in illustration led to experiments in print making. Bawden's early attempts at lino-cutting developed into a skill that he used until the end of his life. Ravilious quickly developed into one of the most renowned wood engravers of the twentieth century.

Book The Splendid Wayfaring

Download or read book The Splendid Wayfaring written by Haldane Macfall and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: